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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-27

J. Madsen, on the NV x of sec. 2, Is,
r 21, has 40 acres of corn, which will
make about Is bus. per acre; 4 acres Of
tair oats; acres of millst, about tons
to the acre; acres Of potatoes, about 60
bus. to the acre, and a good garden.
Mr.. Madsen expects to put up about rs
tons of prairie hay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-27

Gus. Sundell. on sec IL, TIA %, has
20 acres of corn, which he says will make
40 bus. per acre. He also has Q extra
colts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-27

Mr.. King, father of W. F, has 10 acres
OF millet, which he thinks viii 60 2 tons
per acre; 20 acres Of corn, 10 bus. per
acre; 10 acres OF late corn, which,
with frequent rains, will make good
crop.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-27

NJ. T. Morgan and son live on the W 4
OF sec. 81, IL, 81. They have 60 acres
Of corn; IL acres of oats, 40 bus. per acre;
20 acres of sorghum, tons to the acre,
and good garden.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-27

John Locker has Il of sec. IL, II, r %.
He has 81 acres of good corn and acre
of potatoes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-27

Geo. w. Cross, on the sw a of sec. 10.
tia, q, has q acres of corn, which he
thinks will make Is bushels per acre on
an average; acres of wheat, is bus.
per acre; acres of oats, 30 bus per acre,
and about 1000 cabbages. Mr.. Cross
has SO head of cattle, looking as well as
he ever saw them. He has 5000 black
locust trees in nursery rows, which have
grown 2K feet in height from the seeds
this year.
, 1887-09-02

BENNINGTON for the sickle.
But he did not hesitate between profit and
patriotism. His wheat was never harvested;
but he had the satisfaction of having taken
part in the most brilliant conflict of the
American revolution.
The battle of Bennington was a blow aimed
by Burgoyne to capture the stores at that
place. Col. Baum led the invasion. The
American forces were under Stark. Baum's
Indians proved towards and ran away. The
New England troops fought land to hand
with the Brunswickers and scaled the batter
les. While pushing on his own men Baum
was killed. This victory was won by the
brave farmers OF Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. Thirty Americans were
killed and twice as many Of the enemy. The
Americans took 692 prisoners, two-thirds of
whom were Germans.
Coming as this battle did after a series of
defeats calculated to depress the hearts of
any people, it greatly elated our patriotic
fathers, and may well be considered the turn
ing point in the great war for freedom.
The monument will stand on State Arms
hill, which rises 800 feet allow . valley.
When completed it will be a shaft 301 feet
high, built of dolemite, which Is a magnetism
limestone of great durability. The base
measurement will be ~ feet and the apex 3
feet. The shaft is to have a rough finish, the
stones having their natural split faces, the
whole held together with Portland cement.
At the height of 200 feet there will be an en-
tablature of 8 feet, and IA feet above that
another entablature 10 feet square. The faces
of these entablatures will be of dressed stone,
and will encircle the shaft. Below the low
est entablature there are to be openings, and
10 feet under these other openings. The door
OF entrance is to be of heavy oak, with bronze
fittings. There will be an iutsr;or staircasa
leading to the higher entablature. The archi-
tect, Mr.. ]. Philip Rim, of Boston, has done
his best to erect a memorial shaft which will
give no suggestions of an observatory.
The plan is furnished by Professor John F..
Weir.
, 1887-09-02
a Chinese ComnIexian.

When observed in one of the Caucasian
race, is indicative of bile in the blood.
Who would be yellow when he or she can
exhibit the hue of health on cheek and
brow through the aid OF Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, an antagonist at whose
onset liver complaint takes refuge in fight.
Fur upon the tongue, nausea, sick head.
ache, pains under the right ribs and
shoulder blade, an unpleasantly odorous
breath, are remediable with this benign
Alternative, which does not, like a potent
cathartic, drench the intestines, or, like
the mercurial preparations, contaminate
the blood. Not only the liver, but the
stomach and bowels are aroused, toned
and regulated by this fine family medi-
cine, which has won the confidence Of
the respectable classes, not by startling
assertions on its behalf, but by the con.
s~istency of the claims made for it with its
performance in every instance when
tested.
, 1887-09-02

tSl2-May g, 53 pussons,r S burned to death near
Be~lleyille, France
iR53-May 6, 70 persons killed, 81 injured, at
open drawbridge, Norwalk, Conn.
ls5-Oct. -, 10 passengers killed on the Great
Western in Canada.
lBJ5-July II, 81 persons, mostly children,
burned and 100 injured on North Pennsylvania
railroad.
IA, 80 persons killed on Great
Western of CANADA at Des Jardine canal.
ls51-June %, II killed and 100 Injured near
Lewisham, England.
ls59-June q, 80 persons killed and 10 wounded
by a washout on Michigan Southern, near South
Bend. Ind.
iS59-Aug. =, 10 persons killed on Albany, Vel.
mont and Canada railroad in Tomhannock creek.
S59-De 81, Il persons killed ut a bridge near
Columbus, Ga.
SGi-Aug -, p persons killed, 100 injured. ut
Croydon tunnel, near London, England.
l8l2-Oct. IS. 10 persons killed, 90 Injured, near
Winchburg, Scotland.
1sG2-July Is, so persons killed, 80 injured, on
the Erie road near Port Jervis.
ls67-Dec. IS, 10 persons burned to death near
Angola, Lake Shore; Dec. II, II lives lost at Han
Ian bridge, Vermont Central railroad.
lsGS-April II, 70 persons killed, co injured, at
Cars Rock, near Port Jervis.
lS6S-Aug ~, S3 persons burned at Abergele,
North Wales.
ls6S-AuR. -, 81 persons killed, 60 injured, on
Northwestern railway of Bohemia.
I ~lS60-July IA, 10 persons burned at Mast Hope,
y. Y, on Erie road.
ls1l-July 3, Is persons killed, ~ injured,
IIGrpeth river, Tenn.
ISL Aug. 20, 30 persons killed, so injured, by
collision at Revere, near Boston, Mass.
~ 9, - lives lost by the burning of an
oil train at New Hamburg, N. Y.
S72-De ~, 10 killed by a train falling into a
ravine at Norwich, England.
~1s7i-Sept. 10, 81 killed, - wounded, by IA coll
lisiou at Shipton, England.
ls14-Sept. 20, - drowned by a train plunging
Into the Cherwcll river, England.
1ai8-Jan. 81, l3 killed by collision on the Great
Northern railway, England.
is7G-Sept. 20, 9o killed by accident AT Black
Lick Station, Penn.
ls1G-Dec. u, over 100 lives lost by the disaster
at AShtabula.
~ %, 200 drowned by n train breaking
through the Tay bridge, Scotland.
ltsl March l, 10 emigrants killed in collision
AT Macon, Mo. WreckinE train proceeding to
scene and ditched and o persons killed.
, 1887-09-02

Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordcred
liver is misery. Indigestion is foe to
good nature.
The human digestive apparatus is one
of the most complicated and wonderful
things in existence, 1t is easily put out
of order.
Greasy food, tough food. sloppy food,
bad cookery, mental worry. late hours, Ir-
regular habits and many other things
which ought not to be, have made the
American people a nation of dyspeptics.
But Green's August Flower has done a
wonderful work in reforming this sad bus
mess and making the American people SO
healthy that they can enjoy their meals
and be happy.
Remember:-No happiness without
health. But Green's August Flower
brings health and happiness to the dyspep-
tic. Ask your druggist for a bottle.
Seventy five cents.
, 1887-09-02

scented the Cologne cathedral with "A monster
bell, in the casting of which $4,000 pounds OF
gun metal from ordnance taken from the
French in battle had been used. But for ten
years the bell was silent, waiting for the con.
clusion of the unfriendly relations existing
between the government and the Catholi.
Church, commonly known by the designation
"Kulturkampf." This hostility having lately,
however, changed to a state of cordially be-
tween the powers temporal and spiritual, the
Archbishop Kremenz, on the S0th of last
June, consecrated the emperor's bell to its it,
tended use.
Tn bells weigh q tons, the clapper alone
weighing 1900 pounds; its height is almost Is
feet and its lower diameter nearly IL feet.
The casting was superintendent by Andreas
Haum in Frankenthal, and required the
metal Of % guns and 10000 pounds of tin.
The Latin inscription on one side of the bell
is TRANSLATED into English:
his majesty, emperor of Germany and king of
Prussia, in grateful remembrance of the help of
Heaven in the successful conduct and termina.
ton of the last war with France and the ~restora-
ton of the German empire, has ordered that co..
900 pounds of metal from pieces of ordnance
taken from the enemy be used for the casting of
a bell for this house of worship, now completed in
such admirable form. In accordance with the will
of this most victorious and most pious prince the
Cathedral Building association had it cast, when
Plus TX was pope and Paulus Melchers arch
bishop of Cologne, in the year 1876,
On the opposite side are the imperial arms,
with n German inscription in verse, which.
rendered into English, runs as follows:
The emp'rors bell s. my name;
His honor l proclaim,
On sacred guard | stay
And for the empire pray
That peace and strength
1t God may lend.
, 1887-09-02

1sS2-Jan. 10, collision on the Hudson River
railroad near Spuyten Duyyil; s lives lost, in
Guiding Senator Webster Wagner.
1898 30, loss of SO lives by a railroad &C
cident on the Cincinnati Southern railroad near
Mnson's Station, o. June 20. IS Cinnamon killed
by an accident on the Northern Pacific railroad
in Montana. July %, accident on the Rome, Wa
tertown and Ogdensburg road at Carlyon, N. Y;
% persons killed; over 40 injured. Nov. %, 10
persons killed at st. Men, France.
1S34-Jan. 2, % persons killed by a railroad col.
lisiGn near Toronto. May l, collision near Con-
nCllsyille, Pa, II lives lost, June 6, IA persons
killed by an accident on the Missouri Pacific rail
road near Mineola. June II, IA persons killed by
falls through a bridge near Cunningham, Mo, ~
persons killed or wounded. July 10. accident on
the Manchester and Sheffield railway, England,
% lives lost. Nov. II, Is persons perish in a col.
lision at Hanau, Austria.
1SS6-Jau. 30, railroad disaster near Sydney, n.
s.. W., 10 persons killed. June 6, = train derniled
by robbers near Raslof, Russia, 20 persons killed
and wounded. Oct. Is, collision between three
Pennsylvania railroad trains near Jersey City, IL
persons killed. Dec. Is, collision near Austell,
Ga, 10 lives lost.
1sS6-Jnn. 10, train wrecked at Valdivin, Peru
80 soldiers perish. March 10, collision between
Monte Carlo and Mentone, Italy; 20 persons
killed. Sept. IA, collision on the Nickel Plate
road near Buffalo; - lives lost, Oct. %, disaster
near Rio, Wis; 10 passengers burned to death.
Nov. 3, train wrecked near Nikolniev and Odessa,
Russia; 40 soldiers killed. Dec. IS, collision at
Charkow, Russia; 10 persons perish,
1ss7-Jan. 4, collision near Tihln, o.; 20 lives
lost. Feb. 3, part of a train plunged through n
bridge over White river, near Woodstock, Vt; 3s
persons killed. March II, a train fell through the
'tin bridge" on the outskirts of Boston; 30 per.
Sous killed. May o, collision on the Atlantic and
Pacific road in New Mexico; 10 lives lost. July
IL, collision between a passenger train and an oil
train Ct st. Thomas, Ont. n persons killed. July
81, IN express train on the Erie railroad plunged
into IL company Of Italian laborers near Hohokus,
n. j.; II men killed or fatally wounded. Aug. 10,
nine crowded cars drop through a bridge at
Chntsworth, Ills; nearly 100 killed and several
hundred wounded.
, 1887-09-02
BABY HUM0RS.
And ali skin and scalp Diseases
speedily Cured bv Cuticura.

speedily Cured bv Cuticura.
Our little son will be four years of age
on the 25th inst. In May, 1885, he was
attacked with a very painful breaking out
of the skin. We called in u physician
who treated him for about four weeks.
The child received little or no good from
the treatment, as the breaking out, sup
posed by the physician to be hives in an
aggravated form, became larger in
blotches, and more and more distressing.
We were frequently obliged to get up in
the night and rub him with soda in water,
strong liniments, etc. Finally, we called
other physicians, until no less than six
had attempted to cure him, all alike fail.
ing, and the child steadily getting worse
and worse, until about the goth of last
July, when we began to give him Cuticura
Resolvent internally, and the Cuticura
and Cuticura Soap externally, and by the
last of August he was so nearly well that
we gave him only one dose Of the Resol.
vent about every second day for about ten
days longer, and he has never been
troubled since with the horrible malady.
In all we used less than one hall OF a bot
tie of Cuticura Resolvent. a little less than
one box of Cuticura, and only one cake of
Cuticura Soap. II. E. RYAN,
Cayuga, Livingston Co. Ill.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
fourth day Of January, 1887.
q. N. COE, j. P.
, 1887-09-02

old way. And that same trouble creeps into
everything. The few who go to perfection in
any art discourage the many for whom per-
lection is not and cannot be. The eldest
daughter goes abroad to study music and
comes home understanding it so well that
there is no more family singing. But Gro
quet goes on, played by the skilled a great
deal and by the unskilled a little. AS soon as
u game develops 'specialists,n players who
play it with professional exactitude and can't
be tripped up, it loses its hold on those who
make a recreation of it.. The experts in the
game have just been holding a tournament
at Norwich, Conn, and the fine playing seen
there was enough to make an ordinary per-
sons eyes open very wide indeed.
, 1887-09-02
EDW. HOFFMAN,,
North Attleboro, Mass.

C%uticura, the great skin cure, and CUT
cura Soap, prepared from it, externally,
and Cuticura Resolvent the new blood
purifier, internally, are a positive cure for
every form of skin and blood disease from
pimples to scrofula.
Sold everywhere. Price: Cuticura. 50
cents; Cuticura Soap, 25 cents; Cuticuru
Resolvent, $l.00. Prepared by Potter
Send for Show to Cure Skin Diseases"
PIMPLES, blackheads, skin blemishcs,
! and baby humors use Cuticura Soap.
, 1887-09-02

In the nunt for Observation-Disclosures with a
bit Of science in it. The human mind is such
4 queer thing that it takes its rest in some
other kline Of work. The games provided for
the purpose Of resting it from its actual toll
are of n kind to make it work, though in a
different direction.
There is the good old game OF croquet,
which in some places has had a revival this
summer. Elderly men take to croquet. Chill
dron like ii. With this constituency. quite
outside Of the usual class of players Of games
the young men and young women-croquet
rannot die. 1t has another popularity which
will keep 1t alive. 1t has the faculty'of max
Ing players lose their tempers in a higher
1egree than any other form of recreation
known to the inhabitants of this planet. A
game played clear through without some
body getting full Of wrath is not expected
one might say never happens.
Not all know that croquet is nearly half a
century old. 1t is a French invention. Or
dinary playing cards were invented to please
a sick French king. Croquet was invented
by II French physician named Guyard to
mus tbs patients. He lived at Pau, which
Is II well known watering place in the south
Of France. From Pau it was carried to Eng
land by tho English visitors, and from Eng
land it came here.
, 1887-09-02
THE BENNINGTON BATTLE
And the Monument which Is to Com
memorhte 1t.

And the which Is to Com
memornte 1t.
Bennington is the oldest town in southern
Vermont; the most noted, too. So well did
the people thereabout like the name they
used it on three villages, with variations
North Bennington, Bennington Center and
bennington. The last mentioned, the un-
modified and unqualified Bennington, has
1000 inhabitants. 1t was once East Ben
nington, and before that Algiers. Benning-
ton Center was once the main village, and
contained the county buildings and the state
arms house. This was a brick structure
which contained the arms and ammunition
which Baum set out to destroy.
Now the fact is that, although Bennington
makes an annual fuss and has set up a monu-
ment and otherwise carried on enthusias-
tically, the famous battle was not fought on
m soil. 1t was fought in Hoosick,
Rensselaer, county, N. Y, Aug. IS, 17T7.
But it has been a godsend to Bennington all
the same. They do say that IL it had not
, 1887-09-02

When croquet was first introduced into
Englandi it swept everything before it. 1t went
up like n rocket, and, true to tradition, came
down like a stick. 1t wns the first outdoor
game in which both sexes could take part on
terms Of perfect equality, and also the first
In which tie old as well as the young could
figure, The rage for athletics was then
just reaching its height among boys
and men. 1t was not to be won
dered at that girls and women ex-
perienced a little longing to do something
in outdoor sports themselves 1t produced a
revolution in English social life by making
garden parties interesting-rescuing them, in
fact, from complete stupidity. 1t leveled of
the lawns and gardens, too. In proportion as
croquet advances to perfection in elaborate
ness and Science" Il becomes wearisome and
dull Experts scorn the game in its old time
simple form, and that takes the heart out of
the Few who would still like to play it in the
, 1887-09-02
The LA1g GEN. ponIpnAN.
A Veteran of the Mexican War who
Died at richmond Mo.

A Veteran of the Mexican War who
Died at Richmond, Mo.
The death of Gen, Alexander W. Doniphan,
who was a veteran of the Mexican war, was
recorded but a few DAYS ago, taking place at
his home in Richmond, Mo. He was for
many years a conspicuous figure. Born near
Maysville, KY, in July, 1908, of a revolution
airy ancestry, he was graduated at the age OF
10 from the Methodist college at Augusta,
KY. In 1929, after a due course of study, he
was admitted to practice in the courts of
Ohio and Kentucky. In 1880 he removed to
Lexington, Mo-, and thence to Liberty, then
on the border of civilization, three years
later. In 1896 he represented his county in
the state legislature, and on two subsequent
occasions was elected to the same position.
In 1888 he was a brigadier general OF
the Missouri militia, and his brigade
was a part Of the force which the governor
sent to drive the Mormons out of the state.
He was prominent in Kansas in the days
when ruffianism was rampant there. In 1876,
, 1887-09-02

In Japan both men and women smoke
tiny metal pipes, the stem, bowl and
mouthpiece being merely a small tube of
brass with one end expanded and turned
up for the bowl. Like the Chinese pipe,
this holds the merest pinch, and requires
constant refilling. They use a long cut
tobacco, a dozen shreds of which,
pinched into small compass, constitute a
printing for the pipe. The pipe is emp
tied by knocking it against something.
The women of Japan smoke as persist
emily as the men.-Thos. Stevens Letter.
, 1887-09-02

v lOLLJ mount GEN, DONIPHAN.
aims, dispersed the Mexican forces defending
santa Fe, entered that ancient capital and
annexed all New Mexico to the United States.
Late in September Kearny started for Cali
fornia with several companies of dragons,
leaving Doniphan in command of New Mex
leo, with orders to reduce the Navajoes on
the western slope Of the Rocky mountains to
submission. Crossing the mountains, Gen.
Doniphan quickly subdued the Indians. On
Dec. Ia he started for central Mexico. The
force passed through a desert in whose
length of ninety miles neither wood nor
water was to be found, and were about going
into camp on Christmas day when the cry
ran along the ranks that the enemy was In
front. Doniphan quickly formed his line of
battle and awaited the attack. The
Mexicans charged. but in less III an
hour they were in full retreat, leaving
over 200 dead and wounded upon the
Held. Not a single Missourian was killed, and
only seven were wounded. On March 1 he
took possession OF chihuahua. Learning that
Gen. Wool was at Saltillo, 700 miles away.
Doniphan set out for that place, and on MAY
II bivouacked near the battlefield of Buena
Vista. The war on that line being ended,
Taylor ordered the Missourians to Brazos
Santiago, where they embarked for New
Orleans, and were mustered out of service.
The regiment was welcomed home in a speech
by Senator Benton and an enthusiastic popu-
lar demonstration.
Resuming the practice of his profession,
Gen. Doniphan led a quiet life until 1861,
when he was one of five delegates appointed
to represent Missouri in the peace confer
ence, and was one of the five from the border
states who, by special Invitation, held an in
Uerview with President Lincoln to counsel
and advise as to the best method of preserving
peace, maintaining the Union and settling
the difficulties that then environed the nation.
He was the last of the five to ''pass over to
the other side"
, 1887-09-02

jority at the ensuing election. As his name
in i~cIte~, lie is of Irish blood; but he was
born in Mississippi, his father having been a
member of the Confederate congress. He
was educated in Kentucky and at Leipsic,
Germany; and not only from his education,
but from what he has already achieved, u
bright future is predicted for him. As ono Of
the rising young men OF the south, Of that
vast majority who have come to manhood
since the war ended, his career will be noted
with unusual interest.
, 1887-09-02

been for a farmer
of Cam Bird g,
Washington u
ty, N. Y, this fight
never would have
come off at all, or,
coming OFF, 1t would
not have termi-
mated in such a
glorious victory.
This Ia rm 9 RS
name was John
Weir. He heard OF
Baum's design, and
rushed Off to Ben
nington to notify
The people of the
arrival of the Hes
slams in Cambridge.
He had fifteen
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, 1887-09-02


From a healthful diversion requiring very
little skill 1t evolved itself into a scientific
game 1t reached this point in New England
in 1880, and at once took rank as a game
worthy of the finest fbered brain on the At
lantic coast. Uneven lawns were made into
perfectly level, smooth and sanded courts,
WITH "a boundary board which checked
the rolling Of the balls just at tho
edge of the field Of play. The
old, uneven wooden balls and long handled
mallets were succeeded by spheres of hard
rubber and mnllets with short handles and
rubber tipped heads. The wide arches which
had stood on tho grassy lawns disappeared,
and were replaced by wickets so narrow that
the balls could just be driven through with
the meerest little bit of room to spare. Then
the thing called good playing was to be seen.
Croquet played on the scientific basis de
ponds for its interest on the exercise OF skill
alone, nor does It need great physical ex-
ertion. This fact keeps it popular with the ell
derby and the lazy Of a younger generation.
A croquet court should be 80 feet long by
Is feet wide. The boards around its bound
airy should be 3 inches high, with corner
pieces 1s inches in length. The boundary
line should be 3 feet inside the boards. 1t is
q good plan to sprinkle salt on the court to
keep down the grass. The ground should
also be sprinkled and rolled quite frequently.
The wickets should be OF steel set into iron
supports. They should not exceed 8 or 10
inches in height or 4 inches in width. Tourna-
ment games demand 81 inch wickets. The
center or cage wicket is made Of two ordi
nary wickets set Is inches apart and at right
angles with the others. Cage wickets must
not be more than 81 inches wide. Four balls
form a set. They are 81 inches in diameter.
The mallet handle are from 8 to 10 inches in
-Four or two persons can play. When two
only NAV each takes two halla